Easter and Mia's Birthday

Frankie and I 
Mikey looking for eggs 
Counting eggs 
Our little Gio
This Easter was a special Easter. It was Mia's 12th Birthday. The last time her birthday fell on Easter was Sunday was April 12, 1998. (Her 1st Bday). We started the weekend off by taking the kiddies to the Camarillo Eggstravaganza. After that we headed over to a friend's house for a bbq. Sunday morning, the boys, of course, woke us up around 6am, and were very excited to see their Easter baskets. Although they had no idea what was going on, it was so fun to see the look on their face when they saw the books and dvd in their basket. (I did give them a candy or two). After we got settled we headed off to church, where our Pastor, Francis Chan, gave an amazing service!  The Lord has definitely blessed Frankie and I with an amazing church!  We then headed to Raerah's house, where the boys and their cousins Nicholas and Anthony did an Easter egg hunt. Giovanni had no idea what he was looking for at first, but he definitely got the hang of it! AFter the hunt, we headed over to La Canada, where my cousin lives and had a blast! My family is so full of love, and Faith! God bless them! The boys played with their 4th cousin, Angelo, and Frankie and I got to catch up with my family. Having a big family is so amazing, and I cannot wait until the boys are older, and will truly get to see how blessed they are! 

Where has the time gone?

I guess I should start off apologizing to my children for not updating this more often. Pregnancy brain? The boys have grown so much, not only physically but mentally within the last few months. Gio is full of words now, such as "no", thank you, please, Auntie, Uncle, papa Raerah, (which is grandma), and the list goes on.  Mia went off to 6th grade camp in March, and came back with a better understanding of what the Lord's true meaning of life for us is. She also just finished basketball, in which she did AWESOME, and just made the team for soccer! Go Mia. We are so proud of her! 

Ashlee just finished Taekwondo that was offered at school, and received a white belt! She broke a board! Very exciting! She is also getting straight A's in school, and we couldn't be more excited! As for Michael, he's definitely growing ,and way too fast! He's slowly potty training himself, and is doing great with color, and shape recognition. His number are still a little off, but he's getting good with counting. He loves playing with his brother, and loves that Giovanni loves to copy every little thing that he does! 

As for Frankie and I, we are doing well. We found out, very unexpectedly, that we are expecting baby #5 in October of 2009. We were very surprised, but also very excited! We had a rough first trimester. I was sick 98% of the time, but am ever so grateful to have made it with thus far, a healthy baby! We also were sent to a specialist because our OB thought there may have been twins! (which we never got a clear answer, because the Xray tech was not allowed to tell us anything).  We go in on the 8th for our 2nd baby check up and cannot wait to hear our baby's heart beat for the first time, and to see if there is only one in there! keeping our fingers crossed! If it is twins, I am definitely hoping one girl, and one boy, and if not twins, then I am really hoping for one more girl, as I think Frankie would agree! 

The Lord has been so gracious to us and I am excited to see what the Lord has in store, even just within the next few months!